Dear Intertubes Fake press releases and fake news on April Fools Day stopped being mildly amusing a decade ago. Now it is just plain sad. Think of the children and knock it off please. No. Please you don’t have to do that.
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Last week I was sort of stoked by the news that Mountain Dew was bringing back Game Fuel but with World of Warcraft branding instead celebrating/pimping Halo. Normally I don’t drink High Fructose Corn Syrup based sodas anymore but I liked how sweet and fruity Game Fuel was and it had a color hue and level of caffeine unparalleled in nature.
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I just got a very reliable news tip from someone in the know that there is going to be a new Halo product or announced very soon. Next Sunday the 5th at noon there is going to be a Halo discussion panel at the Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle.
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Greetings, your friendly neighborhood BBQ here. I’ve got to say I’m very pleased with Nintendo today. This past Sunday, the 22nd, I dropped of my Wii in a UPS collection box, to be shipped to Nintendo HQ for repairs. Here it is Thursday the 26th, and I’ve got it back already. Jiminy Jilickers! I didn’t expect it that fast!
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Last night I had an absolute blast messing around with the new Nintendo Wii Menu 4.0. This is the update that was announced at Game Developer Conference 09. My Wii is finally no longer full.
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Sweet it looks like some of Nintendo’s big news at the Game Developer Conference today is that they finally fixed the Wii Storage software problem and are now supporting games to launch directly off the SD card and they are also supporting SD Cards up to 32 gigs. The Wii software update is available today. Joy!
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I wonder if Microsoft is ever going to show off their motions sensitive wand controller project Newton project. I wonder if it is going to happen at Game Developers Conference this week or at the E3 this summer.
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The horrors of a real war struck home for Halo Wars lead designer Graeme Devine today. Mr. Devine was getting ready to mail a care package to a video game fan in the US military when he learned that the marine he was sending the package of games to was injured in a grenade attack. The marine was airlifted to military hospitals in Germany and is undergoing surgery. Devine wrote about this on Twitter. Our hearts go to the gamer marine and I’ll have updates to this story when available.
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I had a misunderstanding in my pervious article on the Xbox 360 E74 error. It ends up that Microsoft is saying that it will repair an E74 error stricken Xbox 360 for free only in the first year since purchase since it is still covered under the basic one year warranty so the E74 is ONLY covered by the normal warranty. After that you have to pay to get it fixed. They will pay for shipping but E74 error victims will have to pay to get it fixed if their Xbox 360 is over a year old.
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